Lower Austrian Provincial Archives

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On the left the Lower Austrian State Archives, next to it the Lower Austrian State Library

The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives (NÖLA) is an Austrian archive in St. Pölten . It is the state archive of Lower Austria .

The archive stores the documents produced by the regional representation and the administrative offices and courts that were active and currently active in Lower Austria. This includes documents, manuscripts and files from the Middle Ages until today. The archive also includes the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, which researches the historical and current development of Lower Austria and organizes appropriate events. The archive has been located in the St. Pölten government district since 1997 . The maintenance provider is the Lower Austrian provincial government .

location

The NÖLA is located in the St. Pölten government district, directly opposite the Lower Austrian regional library . It is counted with other surrounding cultural and scientific institutions to the so-called cultural district of St. Pölten .

history

The state archive is the follow-up institution on the one hand to the archive of the estates and on the other hand to the archive of the state government. The estate archive was housed locally in Herrengasse in Vienna until 1967 , after which it was moved to Teinfaltstrasse in the building of the former Bodencreditanstalt . From 1863 to 1918 the archive was subordinate to the Austrian provincial committee. In 1922, when Vienna broke up, it had to hand over numerous valuable items to the City of Vienna. In the years 1923 to 1940, the state archive, like the state library and the state museum , was part of the Lower Austrian state collections , while the government archive remained independent.

In 1940, by order of the German Ministry of the Interior , the entire archive became the archive of the Reichsgau Niederdonau . It was merged with the state government archive, which goes back to Maximillian I from 1501, in one administration. This part of the archive has been called the Archive for Lower Austria since 1894 . The extensive book collection comes from the Lieutenancy and consists mainly of law books and festschrifts that were sent to the provincial governor. Until 1950 it served mainly as an official library . Parts of these books were given to the state library. In the years from 1943 to the end of the war, valuable holdings were relocated to temporary satellite camps such as monasteries and castles because of the ongoing bombing raids on Vienna.

The two combined archives have been given the current name since 1945. However, due to the spatial separation, the two terms government archive and state archive remained relevant not only historically but also administratively. Both archive bodies were designated as departments.

In 1978 the Institute for Regional Studies was installed and had its seat in Vienna in the Strauchgasse, a side street of the Herrengasse. In 1984 it was also merged with the State Archives.

While the new state capital was decided in 1986, in the same year and in the two following years a branch of the archive was set up in Bad Pirawarth in an abandoned factory building.

In 1988, as a result of its own state capital, the state parliament decided to create the cultural quarter in St. Pölten, which should also house the Lower Austrian state archive. The two architects Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon began planning their own archive building in 1991/1992. The shell was completed in 1995.

On November 18, 1997, the Lower Austrian State Archive was opened in St. Pölten.

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literature

  • Helmuth Feigl : The archive for Lower Austria and its archivists 1893-1940 . In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 28, 1975, pp. 361–377
  • Elisabeth Loinig, Roman Zehetmayer (Hrsg.): Worth repelling . 150 years of Lower Austria State Archives. 200 Years of the Lower Austrian State Library , Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, St. Pölten 2013, ISBN 978-3-901635-64-9
  • Silvia Petrin, Fritz Eheim: The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives , 1977
  • The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives in St. Pölten = special publication by the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies (St. Pölten 2000)
  • Willibald Rosner : The Lower Austrian State Archives . In: Willibald Rosner, Günter Marian (Hrsg.): Handbook for Heimat- und Familienforschung in Niederösterreich , Niederösterreichisches Institut für Landeskunde, St. Pölten 2008, pp. 12–15
  • Stefan Eminger : The Lower Austrian Provincial Archives 1938-1945 . In: General Directorate of the Austrian State Archives (ed.): Austria's Archives under the Hakenkreuz , Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2010, (= Communications of the Austrian State Archives 54), ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , pp. 473-525

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